115.287. 1. Upon receipt of a signed application for an absentee
ballot and if satisfied the applicant is entitled to vote by absentee
ballot, the election authority shall, within three working days after
receiving the application, or if absentee ballots are not available at the
time the application is received, within five working days after they
become available, deliver to the voter an absentee ballot, ballot envelope
and such instructions as are necessary for the applicant to vote. Delivery
shall be made to the voter personally in the office of the election
authority or by bipartisan teams appointed by the election authority, or by
first class, registered, or certified mail at the discretion of the
election authority. Where the election authority is a county clerk, the
members of bipartisan teams representing the political party other than
that of county clerk shall be selected from a list of persons submitted to
the county clerk by the county chairman of that party. If no list is
provided by the time that absentee ballots are to be made available, the
county clerk may select a person or persons from lists provided in
accordance with section 115.087. If the election authority is not
satisfied that any applicant is entitled to vote by absentee ballot, it
shall not deliver an absentee ballot to the applicant. Within three
working days of receiving such an application, the election authority shall
notify the applicant and state the reason he or she is not entitled to vote
by absentee ballot. The applicant may appeal the decision of the election
authority to the circuit court in the manner provided in section 115.223.

2. If, after 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday before an election, any voter
from the jurisdiction has become hospitalized, becomes confined due to
illness or injury, or is confined in an adult boarding facility,
intermediate care facility, residential care facility, or skilled nursing
facility, as defined in section 198.006, RSMo, in the county in which the
jurisdiction is located or in the jurisdiction or an adjacent election
authority within the same county, the election authority shall appoint a
team to deliver, witness the signing of and return the voter's application
and deliver, witness the voting of and return the voter's absentee ballot.
In counties with a charter form of government and in cities not within a
county, and in each city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants,
and is situated in more than one county, if the election authority receives
ten or more applications for absentee ballots from the same address it may
appoint a team to deliver and witness the voting and return of absentee
ballots by voters residing at that address, except when such addresses are
for an apartment building or other structure wherein individual living
units are located, each of which has its own separate cooking facilities.
Each team appointed pursuant to this subsection shall consist of two
registered voters, one from each major political party. Both members of
any team appointed pursuant to this subsection shall be present during the
delivery, signing or voting and return of any application or absentee
ballot signed or voted pursuant to this subsection.

3. On the mailing and ballot envelopes for each applicant in federal
service, the election authority shall stamp prominently in black the words
"FEDERAL BALLOT, STATE OF MISSOURI" and "U.S. Postage Paid, 39 U.S.C.
3406".

4. No information which encourages a vote for or against a candidate
or issue shall be provided to any voter with an absentee ballot.

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